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A trip to Mt. Vernon

20 Monday Apr 2015

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“I’ve lived here my whole life, I love this neighborhood,” Alvaro Roman, co-owner of Ted’s Musicians Shop, was sitting behind his desk with a black beanie and a heavy jacket. It was the coldest day in February and Mt. Vernon was covered in snow and ice.

Until recently, I had never been to Mt. Vernon. I have driven through the neighborhood but never stopped to eat or check out any shops or museums.

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Wil S. Hylton

02 Thursday Apr 2015

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On Wednesday, Wil S. Hylton came to my feature writing class to talk about writing profile stories and his journey and experiences as a journalist.

Wil has a very different clothing style and I later came to realize his style reflects his years in New Mexico and New York city. He did not remain stagnant in Baltimore.

He starts to talk about the program at his high school that basically got him a job at the Baltimore Sun, using his hands to express his thoughts, his legs stay crossed as he leans back comfortably at the table.

Hylton admits he “was just this kid who had a lucky break,” as he barely passes high school and doesn’t get into or go to any college but still manages to land jobs at papers such as the Baltimore Sun and magazines like Baltimore Magazine.

His philosphy of journalism is all about doing “whatever it takes to get a story.” He laughs as he says he would smoke a joint for an interview or drink a lot, just to make them more comfortable. And to “put your chips on the table next to theirs.”

He, like many others, believes that “journalists have a role to provide a perspective in the world.”

Some of Hylton’s advice was to do multiple interviews on one person in the story. Mainly the central or primary character. This way you can get the best detail out of a story. Also, the details in their stories that change mean that they haven’t thought about it much and now the details become vivid to them.

Hylton gave me a lot of good advice to think of as I start following around and interviewing my next profile story subject.

Talking with a WSJ reporter

05 Thursday Feb 2015

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Yesterday I met Scott Calvert, news correspondent in Maryland, eastern Pennsylvania & Delaware for the Wall Street Journal, for my feature writing class.

Most of the conversation was about his experience as a journalist. Some great questions included: how do you organize all your material for a story and as someone who has been in the field for 20 years, how he thought journalism had changed and will continue to change.

He talked to us about topics ranging from his stint as the last international correspondent for the Baltimore Sun to ethical practices for quotes when creating a story to his first every experience as a journalist in New Hampshire.

He gave my class a lot of good tips for gathering ideas for stories. He scans Twitter constantly because of the speed of news released on the social media site. He also looks more deeply into topics he’s curious about or very interested in.

All the while trying to keep more of a business perspective in his writing for the WSJ.

After he has a story idea he always prepares for the worst. He jokingly states that many times, obstacles come in a journalist’s way as he or she starts to actually find people for their story idea.

However, he believes that even if one or two people don’t want to talk, a journalist still needs to talk to as many people as they can. This way a journalist can get all the possible information he or she would need to complete a story.

He also gave us an example of a time where he had to make an ethical decision involving a person he interviewed for a crime story in Wilmington, Delaware.

Personally, I enjoyed that story the most as we all know if any person consents to be interviewed and he/she gives us his/her full name we can write down their words exactly as he/she says them. This is not a problem but sometimes people tell us things they did not mean to and they do not realize what their words will sound like for them when it is printed in a newspaper article.

Scott made me think about how much power we have over someone’s interview in that moment. He brought up the idea that a lot of the time we, as journalists, had to look out for those people and do what is right by them. Besides politicians for example, who say something incriminating and then afterwards add, “that was off the record” by then, for them it is too late and will be published.

Are Millennial’s really that apathetic towards voting?

11 Tuesday Nov 2014

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(Students inside the Lock Raven room in the Union. Photo by TU Student Kayla Baines)

This years midterm elections seemed to be more important than ever. However, there are many Millennials, our currently college students, who do not seem to be concerned about getting out to vote.

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Coming to Towson all the way from Newcastle

30 Wednesday Apr 2014

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(Study Abroad student, Josh Hutchinson, at the Marriott. Photo by: Kayla Baines)

(Study Abroad student, Josh Hutchinson, at the Marriott. Photo by: Kayla Baines)

I met Josh Hutchinson in Residence Tower at Towson University. We were both living in the international floors of the building and through meeting him, I learned a lot about British culture and learned about differences from other cultures and my own. I chose to interview him for this project because I learned so much about culture and traveling from him being here in Towson, so I thought by this interview I could share with everyone what knowledge and experiences he gained from attending Towson University and how it has affected his life.

 

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